Patrick Beverley Quotes

Patrick Beverley

Profession : Basketball Player

Birth : July 12, 1988

I can't let myself down. I can't let my hood down, my area down.

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I am from the West Side of Chicago. I have been looking over my shoulder my whole life. I am not worried about a death threat.

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I learned you can't get too comfortable.

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I like to stay on the ground, and remember that you get out what you put in.

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I am Chicago. I'm from Chicago. I bleed Chicago. I really think I can help the city. I think I can save the city.

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I'm a Chicago kid. So, of course, I'm open to playing for the Chicago Bulls if that's a team that's interested in me. At the same time, any decision that is made, it's never personal. It's always business. I have to make the right decision for me and my family.

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I feel like any team I'm on, I can help take that team to the playoffs.

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I have the type of passion that I don't think a lot of people have.

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If I didn't get paid to play this game, I'd still play it the exact same way, with as much intensity and as much focus as I play it with now.

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Chicago is everything to me.

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The biggest thing for me when I got to L.A. was everybody wrote us off to make the playoffs. That was one of my goals. Put that on my mirror. We did it as a team. And that's my thing: Wherever I go, I'm going to win.

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First and foremost, you never want to see anyone get injured.

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You don't ever salute losing - ever.

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I'm the best guard in this league, defensively, man, hands down.

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Basketball players want to be comfortable, they want to be lackadaisical, they want to make the right passes and take the right shots.

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When you play me, I'm going to get right up in your grill and let you know it's going to be a long day. It's going to be physical. It's going to be something you don't like. It's going to be hell.

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I hate being pressured. I hate when someone gets in my personal area. That's why I do it to everybody else.

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If I had to play myself, I'd probably want to fight me too.

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People don't believe this, but until sixth grade I'd never seen a white person who wasn't with the police or on TV.

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I want to make sure the other point guard can't start his offense until 12 or 13 seconds. Then I've put my team in position to defend just one pick-and-roll and one pass.

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